INTRODUCTION TO ICT
The World Wide Web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed in Switzerland. The Web browser was released outside CERN in 1991, first to other research institutions starting in January 1991 and to the general public on the Internet in August 1991.
Today a lot of business transactions happen through internet and hence called e-commerce. ICT facilitates marketing, customer visit, product browsing, shopping basket checkout, tax and shopping, receipt and process order. Through e-commerce one can also offer services pertaining to processing transactions, documentation, presentations, inventory management and gathering product information. In other words, every business activity can be done being at home.
EVOLUTION OF ICT
ICT is evolving in a very fast pace. Our grandparents grew up in a society with no telephone; our parents in a society in which the radio was the first and television was the last source of information. We live in a world of internet. And the new generation in in the wireless world. As a result the world around us also has changed dramatically over the years. This dramatic change in the field of ICT is a result of innovations in the field of science, defense and business. These innovations have reduced the sizes of the technological tools and increased the speed in which they operate to process data and communicate information.
